Comments on: LASUtility http://lidarnews.com/lasutility Laser Scanning Industry News Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:47:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Bharat Lohani http://lidarnews.com/lasutility#comment-1347 Bharat Lohani Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:44:30 +0000 http://lidarnews.com/?p=1183#comment-1347 LASUTility is free-absolutely. Only we need to know who works with this so we can send new versions. The latest version has better 3D display of data. Earlier was slow and not much functional for displaying data in graphical form. LASUtility does not require one to know any programming languages as you can use this directly. LASUTility is free-absolutely. Only we need to know who works with this so we can send new versions. The latest version has better 3D display of data. Earlier was slow and not much functional for displaying data in graphical form. LASUtility does not require one to know any programming languages as you can use this directly.

]]> By: Martin Isenburg http://lidarnews.com/lasutility#comment-465 Martin Isenburg Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:40:53 +0000 http://lidarnews.com/?p=1183#comment-465 LAStools (http:://www.cs.unc.edu/~isenburg/lastools/) contains some interesting commandline tools for working with LAS files. The file names give away what the tools are doing: las2dem.exe, larmerge.exe, las2tin.exe, lasinfo.exe, lasthin.exe, lasmerge.exe, las2txt.exe, txt2las.exe ... some of these tools are also part of the LASlib package that Howard mentioned above ... LAStools (http:://www.cs.unc.edu/~isenburg/lastools/) contains some interesting commandline tools for working with LAS files. The file names give away what the tools are doing: las2dem.exe, larmerge.exe, las2tin.exe, lasinfo.exe, lasthin.exe, lasmerge.exe, las2txt.exe, txt2las.exe … some of these tools are also part of the LASlib package that Howard mentioned above …

]]> By: Marcelo http://lidarnews.com/lasutility#comment-402 Marcelo Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:41:21 +0000 http://lidarnews.com/?p=1183#comment-402 I'm relatively new to LiDAR, but apparently Fusion/LDV has a bunch of functionality, and it is FREE... Correct me if i'm wrong... http://forsys.cfr.washington.edu/fusion.html I’m relatively new to LiDAR, but apparently Fusion/LDV has a bunch of functionality, and it is FREE…
Correct me if i’m wrong…
http://forsys.cfr.washington.edu/fusion.html

]]> By: Avan http://lidarnews.com/lasutility#comment-390 Avan Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:37:06 +0000 http://lidarnews.com/?p=1183#comment-390 You can also download free 3D LIDAR Viewer from VirtualGeomatics web page which carries lots of on-the-fly functionality and caters different las formats. That web page also carries information about their other stand-alone products as well. You can also download free 3D LIDAR Viewer from VirtualGeomatics web page which carries lots of on-the-fly functionality and caters different las formats. That web page also carries information about their other stand-alone products as well.

]]> By: wolfsnipes http://lidarnews.com/lasutility#comment-387 wolfsnipes Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:37:28 +0000 http://lidarnews.com/?p=1183#comment-387 sorry didn't see howards comment above sorry didn’t see howards comment above

]]> By: wolfsnipes http://lidarnews.com/lasutility#comment-386 wolfsnipes Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:35:42 +0000 http://lidarnews.com/?p=1183#comment-386 Why would one use LasUtility as opposed to liblas? Why would one use LasUtility as opposed to liblas?

]]> By: Howard Butler http://lidarnews.com/lasutility#comment-385 Howard Butler Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:12:30 +0000 http://lidarnews.com/?p=1183#comment-385 libLAS, which is free as in libre and free as in beer, has the ability to stitch multiple LAS files together, I/O to and from ASCII, or convert to shapefiles when combined with GDAL/OGR. The next version will include support for writing to Oracle Point Cloud tables, spatial indexing of LAS files for fast query, and conversion from TerraSolid .bin format to LAS (1.0-1.3). There's no visualization, and there is no GUI (command-line only), but if you spend a little bit of time with libLAS, you should be able to recoup your costs quite quickly :) libLAS, which is free as in libre and free as in beer, has the ability to stitch multiple LAS files together, I/O to and from ASCII, or convert to shapefiles when combined with GDAL/OGR. The next version will include support for writing to Oracle Point Cloud tables, spatial indexing of LAS files for fast query, and conversion from TerraSolid .bin format to LAS (1.0-1.3).

There’s no visualization, and there is no GUI (command-line only), but if you spend a little bit of time with libLAS, you should be able to recoup your costs quite quickly :)

]]>